Have you seen these horrific headlines in recent months? “Another person has died from rationing insulin.” “Woman says her son couldn’t afford insulin — and now he’s dead.” “He lost his insurance and turned to a cheaper...
Author - Aishani Aatresh
Meet Five Synthetic Biology Companies Using AI To Engineer Biology
TVs and radios blare that “artificial intelligence is coming,” and it will take your job and beat you at chess. But AI is already here, and it can beat you — and the world’s best — at chess. In 2012, it was also used by...
The growth and bottlenecks of synthetic biology: say hello to Berkeley Lights
The rapid growth, innovation, and applications stemming from synthetic biology have been making an indelible mark across a multitude of disciplines — from apparel and agriculture to data storage and economics. The...
DNA Data Storage Is About To Go Viral
In 1862, Gregor Mendel bred pea plants to study inheritance. Fast forward 100 years to 1962, James Watson, Frances Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA. Today...
Tackling the future of sustainability at the 2019 Biodesign Challenge Summit
Last month, 37 teams of university and high school students from 9 countries convened at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design in New York to present their biotechnology solutions to some of the world’s...
How Distributed Bio CSO Jake Glanville is engineering the cell for the 21st century
For most of human history, we have furthered our knowledge about life by zooming in — starting at the macro level and inching towards the micro. Although there are innumerable advancements that have facilitated...
The top 10 skills synthetic biologists will need for 2019
Synthetic biology is one of the most rapidly advancing fields in the world today. From universal vaccine development and CRISPR-Cas9 applications to agritech and biofuels, synthetic biology is establishing itself as a...
A clash of titans: DIY Bio met the homebrew computer club at SynBioBeta 2018
Steve Wozniak: the man who co-founded Apple, a household name. George Church: the synthetic biologist and professor, a mammoth contributor to science, both figuratively and literally. The opening night of SynBioBeta...
